"The Making and Un-making of a Marine"

Date & Time
2007

Venue and Event
(see also the Millrock Writers Collective Calendar)

"An evening of literary delights by the Millrock Writers"

Featuring: The Making and Un-Making of a Marine

A memoir by Larry Winters, Debut publication of the Millrock Writers' Collective (Millrock Writers Collective)

and Special Guest Jeff Padovani on acoustic guitar

845-255-1559, info@UnisonArts.org,  www.UnisonArts.org
Free Admission and refreshments

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern (UUCRT) currently meeting at St. Anne's Episcopal Church, 175 East Main St. Washingtonville, NY 10992  www.uucrt.org

The title is "Healing the Trauma of War".

The service starts at 10:45 AM and will be followed by the forum at 12:15.

Spoken Word Café located on 67 South Randolph Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 471-6580 Larry Winters will read poetry and from his book The Making and Un-making of a Marine

Workshop: Why We Won't Ask War Veterans What They Know
Larry Winters, BPS, LMHC; Senior Clinician; Four Winds Hospital; will be publishing The Making and Un-making of a Marine: One Man's Struggle for Forgiveness, in March 2007. From his experience in the Vietnam War his workshop will explore the sociomety war creates both in the personal psyche and in families. Understanding the personal effects of war on our being and on our soldier's beings informs our work towards peace in the world community.

Contact information ASGPP 301 N. Harrison Street, Suite 508, Princeton, NJ 08540 609-452-1339 asgpp@ASGPP.org, www.ASGPP.org

A video to promote the conference is now posted on YouTube and on the myspace page created for the conference.
Here are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNA3xnuzon8
http://www.myspace.com/asgppgivepeaceachance

Larry Winters and Sam Klagsbrun, MD Executive Medical Director, Owner, Four Winds Hospital, Katonah and Saratoga Springs.

What We Cry About

The process of grief has been defined as a series of stages: shock and numbness, yearning and searching, disorganization and despair, reorganization, and risk. In this workshop we will look at personal, societal and ancestral grief. We will address: what do we do with overwhelming loss, where the sense of bereavement can't be shaken off? How can we deal with the grief created by war, terrorism, holocaust, genocide, and ethnic cleansing? Do we carry the grief of our ancestor, and if so can it be processed? What are the appropriate targets of our rage and anger? Can we live with loss as opposed to trying to clear it, get rid of it, or work it through? Are the stages of personal grief the same for generational grief suffered by such things as holocaust, war, genocide, ethnic cleansing etc? With the continuous flow of grief and fear coming from the media reporting events of war and terrorism daily, how do we cope and protect ourselves from this insistent probing?

Henry & Hamish Booksellers

34B Main Street, Livingston Manor, New York 12758, 845-439-8029

Note: This performance will be open only to Soldier’s Heart Veterans Return Retreat participants, but future public performances will be announced on the Play Page.

This year our conference is focused on hope, resistance and transformation.  Jim Wallis states, “Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, then watching the evidence change.”  Thankfully, life has often demonstrated this truth. Mary Wynne Ashford a medical doctor and peace advocate, suggests a powerful yet simple tool of resistance; “At the very least, the individual can challenge the silence of assumed consensus. By breaking the silence, by refusing to collude with the evil and insanity, one resists the darkness.”

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Post Trauma Society Disorder?:  
A Deeper look at PTSD By Larry Winters

PTSD is a diagnostic term that comes out of the DSM-!V, a mental health manual. It stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I propose that PTSD should stand for Post Trauma Society Disorder.  

This workshop will look at our returning soldiers and the obligation our society holds in healing these men and women. In fact this obligation goes well beyond parades, VA hospitals, and military metals. If we as a society don't reach down into our souls, we will never understand our returning men and women with PTSD nor the continuing disorder in their lives. PTSD is also seen as infectious adversely effecting our families, community, and nation. Until we fully accept our societal responsibility neither our returning military personnel nor our nation will have peace.

Visit:  The 9th Annual Kateri Tekakwitha Peace Conference

Friday, September 7
9AM

CHALENG meeting regarding the needs of homeless veterans

held on in the New Social Hall, Building 15, Room 7, at our Montrose campus.

Larry Winters, BPS, LMHC, and author of The Making and Unmaking of a Marine will provide a presentation on "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Post Trauma Society Disorder?: A Deeper Look at PTSD."

For more information see the initation letter and/or agenda/poster.

Monday September 17th – 7PM

Colony Cafe Open Spoken + open mike

Readings from the new book, Post Traumatic Press 2007. This book tells the stories of veterans with direct experience of the military. For some, the intense experience of war can only be expressed in poetry, while others are driven by the need to say something openly political. The book includes veterans from World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, peace time and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan .

Reading their own work are Richard Boes, Thomas Brinson, Marc Levy, Bob Lusk, Jim Murphy, Jay Wenk, Dan Wilcox, Larry Winters and Dayl Wise.

Published by Post Traumatic Press, Woodstock , NY D. Wise, dswbike@aol.com

Hosted by Phillip Levine

Vet features at 8 PM, open mike before.

$4 cover

22 Rock City Road , Woodstock, NY

Visit:  www.colonycafe.com

Albany Marriott Hotel, Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12205

Larry will do a presenation and be on a panel with others answering questions.

See the Press Release for this event in MS Word format or PDF format]

For more information and registration form, visit:   www.mhanys.org

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: How To Help Our Veterans Recapture Their Lives

Larry Winters, BPS, LMHC, Senior Clinician, Four Winds Hospital, Katonah, NY; Vietnam Veteran and Author, The Making and Un- Making of a Marine

There have been 250,000 troops deployed in Iraq since the beginning of the war, making the number of veterans returning home to their lives ever increasing. What is the fate of these men and women after they have finished serving our country? How can we integrate these men and women back into our culture?  

Fee: $15.00 payable to "Four Winds Hospital"

For more information, see the printable, color Presentation Poster (in PDF format)

1.5 CME Credits Available ~ Book Sale Following Lecture

First Congregational Church 85 Heritage Dr. Tallmadge , Ohio 44278

 Winters will speak at the Gardiner Town Hall, 133 Main St , Gardiner, NY

The  event is free and all are welcome.

Bethlehem Public Library, 451 Delaware Ave, Delmar, NY

Larry Winters, a former US Marine, willl read from his poetry. Some of you may remember Larry from the 9th Annual Kateri Tekakwitha Peace Conference this past summer. Larry did a workshop at the Conference on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dan Wilcox will host this event and will give us all a chance to read our own poetry with an open mike session. Refreshments provided. Co-sponsored by Bethlehem NEighbors for PEace and Veterans for Peace. Join us. Information: 518 391-2830

Is honored to have Larry Winters

The Soul of a Soldier (PTSD AND ITS TREATMENT)

America is at War. Iraq veterans are coming home with war related injuries, including PTSD. It is an important time to raise awareness and learn more about what these men and women are going through - and how to be of help.

Join us for an evening of Soul work on the topic of War.

PLACE: Katonah Library

* open to the public *

PLEASE RSVP TO: SAUNDRA C. BLUM at (914) 767-0312

See the Katonah Study Group flyer for cost, directions, details.

Also see the Katonah Study Group for Integrative Medicine website

Featuring members of the Millrock Writers' Collective (www.millrockwriters.com), we will share holiday and winter themed pieces. Knowing us, it will be anything but traditional.

Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY

(postponed from Sunday, December 16, 7-9pm)

 (snow date Feb 3rd 5-7pm)

Lifetime Learning Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Larry Winters, author, poet, and psychotherapist will speak to us about his book: "The Making and UnMaking of a Marine."

In this provocative and stimulating talk Larry will demonstrate how he used his poetry as a healing tool with veterans in and out of Four Winds Hospital who suffered from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.) Please join us for what will be a most informative discussion. Copies of his book will be for sale.

SUNY, New Paltz, NY

HEALING THE SCARS OF WAR:

A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE

Edward Tick, Ph.D. & Larry Winters, LMHC, Healing the War-wounded Soul

www.newpaltz.edu/idmh/conference.html